Month: June 2023
Uganda should Join Brics
BRICS countries have achieved significant economic growth since their formation in 2009. According to data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), their combined GDP grew from $12.5 trillion in 2009 to $18.8 trillion in 2020. They are among the fastest-growing economies in the world, with China being the second-largest economy globally and India expected to
Mr Blinken met China’s President Xi Jinping
Relations between Beijing and Washington have plummeted in the wake of a Trump-era trade war, Beijing’s assertive claims over Taiwan and the shooting down of an alleged Chinese spy balloon over the US earlier this year. The US and China have pledged to stabilise their tense relationship following US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s two-day
hacker group Clop published victim’s personal data on dark web
Ransomware gangs like Clop use their leak sites to “name and shame” victims into paying by posting company profiles. It is a well-trodden and often profitable process. The names and company profiles of dozens of victims of a global mass hack have been published by a cyber crime gang holding their stolen data to ransom.
Meta Scientists says AI won’t destroy jobs forever
Meta has a large AI research programme and producing intelligent systems as capable as humans is one of its goals. As well as research, the company uses AI to help identify harmful social media posts. When people raise concerns about the human-level or above machines that might exist in the future, they are referring to
Bill Gates -Xi Jinping meeting
Mr Gates is in China in his role as the co-chairman of the The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation he started with his former wife. In 2020, Mr Gates stepped down from Microsoft’s board to focus on the foundation, which focuses on global health, education and climate change. Microsoft’s co-founder Bill Gates
Foxconn to switch to cars making
Foxconn, or Hon Hai Technology Group as it is officially known, started off in 1974, making knobs for TVs. Now it is one of the world’s most powerful technology companies, with an annual revenue of $200bn (£158.2bn). It is best known for making more than half of Apple’s products from iPhones to iMacs but it
Spotify ends Harry and Meghan Podcast deal
The contract was estimated to be worth $25m (£18m) in late 2020 and The podcast deal was one of the major commercial agreements the couple entered into after quitting royal duties and relocating to the US in 2020. When the agreement with Spotify was first announced, it was billed as a relationship which would produce
Russian to deliver nuclear weapons to Belarus
The deployment is Moscow’s first move of such warheads shorter-range less powerful nuclear weapons that could potentially be used on the battlefield outside Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union. President Alexander Lukashenko has confirmed that Belarus is taking delivery of Russian tactical nuclear weapons, some of which he said were three times more
Kiev has declared its intention to retake the peninsula and has subjected targets there to regular attack. Moscow annexed Crimea in 2014, long before the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The Ukrainian general staff in Kiev said the counteroffensive to retake territory was focusing on the Bakhmut area in the
“abandoning” African fathers in old age
The provision of special care for the elderly in old age differs from country to country and clime to clime. For example, Africans and Europeans are not similar in culture; as each family in Africa caters for their own elderly people in their space, Arecent finding has shown that about 75 percent of fathers in